BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — If Noel Manning were a betting man, he’d have an edge in predicting the winners at the Oscar awards ceremony Sunday night, Feb. 24. As a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Manning evaluated…
Campbell Divinity School professor wins prestigious international award for theological studies
BUIES CREEK, N.C. — David Moffitt, an assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Campbell University Divinity School, is one of 10 young scholars from around the world named recipients of a prestigious international award for excellence in theological…
As Lent begins, Passport once more offers web-based resource to observe season
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Passport, a 20-year-old student ministry with ties to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is again offering its “Journey to the Cross” Lenten series on its devotional website. Lent began on Feb. 13. The series, which will run through…
Northeast blizzard no impediment for Mid-Atlantic disaster recovery teams in the region
While a thick blanket of snow fell across the Northeast last weekend, it did little to impede disaster response teams from North Carolina and Virginia which remain in New Jersey and New York more than three months after Hurricane Sandy….
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Accepted a new call? Been ordained? Church celebrating an anniversary? Mission trip or project that you would like highlighted on the HeraldBeat page? Send info to HeraldBeat editor Barbara Francis at [email protected]. Transitions ON THE MOVE James R. Hunter, to…
N.C. pastor tapped to lead Va. Baptist learning communities initiative aimed at emerging leaders
RICHMOND — North Carolina pastor Charity Roberson has been tapped to lead a new Virginia Baptist initiative developing learning communities aimed at identifying and training potential church leaders among students of all ages. Roberson, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in…
Embattled pastor, named in cover-up of sexual and physical abuse, speaks on seminary campus
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP) — A pastor named in a class-action lawsuit alleging a cover-up of sexual and physical abuse of children warned students at a Southern Baptist Convention seminary against the “temptation to be puffed up and arrogant in…
Unexpectedly, a church and a seminary at odds theologically find common ground in mutual respect
WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Anyone wanting a microcosm of the heartache and hurt that surrounded the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s and ’90s might zero in on Wake Forest Baptist Church and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary….
Unexpectedly, a church and a seminary at odds theologically find common ground in mutual respect
Unexpectedly, a church and a seminary at odds theologically find common ground in mutual respect Linda Brinson WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Anyone wanting a microcosm of the heartache and hurt that surrounded the fracturing of the Southern Baptist Convention in…